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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 171: No, Seriously. Who Is Donna Troy?
It’s the most rewritten and confusing backstory in the history of comics. No, not Hawkman. Not The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Not even Jean Grey. It’s Donna Troy. For this episode, I return to…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 170: VH-1: The Peak Years
In the 1990s and 2000s, VH-1 declared itself “Music First” and began airing original programming. It began with music-related shows and eventually went fully into reality television. But during that…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 169: Robin Lives!
From the DC Vault, it’s the “What If” story that Batman fans had wondered about for years (even though What If is a Marvel book): What if Jason Todd had lived? Join me as I take a look at the…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 168: White Water Memories
In 1987, White Water Summer, starring Kevin Bacon and Sean Astin, was released. The movie did poorly in theaters but gained a following on cable and video, becoming a coming-of-age cult classic. This…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 167: The Uncollecting V: Hoarders
It’s time for the fifth annual Uncollecting episode. This time around, I take a look at an episode of the A&E show Hoarders that features a couple named Claire and Vance, whose enormous book…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 165: Strictly Eighties Joel
“You May Be Right,” “Allentown,” “Tell Her About It” … all of these are found on the seminal compilation album Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2, which came out 40 years ago. Join me as I take a…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 164: Masters of the Universe
He-Man and the forces of good fight Skeletor for the freedom of Eternia! Cannon Films presents … MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE! This time around, I’m going to take a look at the 1987 live-action adaptation…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 163: JSApril — The JSA vs. Extant
It’s JSApril! All this month, comics podcasts and blogs are celebrating the original super-hero team, the Justice Society of America. For this episode, I’ll be talking about one of the JSA’s darkest…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 162: Following the Force 2 — Attack of the Clones
Return with me to a galaxy far, far away! My occasional miniseries “Following the Force” is back with a look at Attack of the Clones! In this episode, I’m going to cover four novels that take place…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 162: Following the Force 2 — Attack of the Clones
Return with me to a galaxy far, far away! My occasional miniseries “Following the Force” is back with a look at Attack of the Clones! In this episode, I’m going to cover four novels that take place…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 161: The Uncollecting IV — The Voyage Home
It’s become an annual tradition at this point to spend my first episode of the year talking about The Uncollecting, which is my effort to downsize my geek stuff. This time around, I’m joined by…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 160: Following the Force Part One — The Phantom Menace
Beginning a new feature! I’m setting down a path that may or may not dominate my destiny: working my way through Star Wars. With this episode, I begin a reading and watching project that will cover…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 159: The Children of the Atom vs. The Prince of Darkness
Just in time for Halloween, it’s mutants vs. vampire courtesy of Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz! I’m joined by Coffee and Comics’ Clinton Robison to talk about Uncanny X-Men #159 and X-Men…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 158: VIP Treatment at the Baltimore Comic-Con
It’s time for my annual look at the Baltimore Comic-Con. This year, the convention was held from September 20-22 and as usual, I went to the show on Saturday. It’s a special one this year because it…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 157: Batman: From Death to Dying
In A Death in the Family, Jason Todd died. In A Lonely Place of Dying, we got our first look at Tim Drake. But what happened between? This episode, I take a look at some of the issues in the very…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 156: Faster, Higher, Stronger
As the 2024 Summer Olympics gets set to begin in Paris, I got together with Professor Alan to talk about our Olympics fandom. Join us as we discuss our love of the Games, my favorite moments, and…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 155: Born in the U.S.A.
It’s the 40th anniversary of one of the biggest albums of the Eighties, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. Join me as I go through the album song by song, look at a few of my favorite B-sides,…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 154: Off-Brand Robotech
In 1984, DC Comics published a Robotech miniseries as a tie-in with the Revell model company. But Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, Lynn Minmei, the SDF-1 or anything else we know and love from Robotech was…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 153: Just Part of the Song
Maybe it’s a lyric. Or a guitar solo. Or the bridge. Whatever it may be, there’s always small parts to songs that you remember. Taking inspiration from a 2004 Retrocrush post, I’m giving you a list…
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 152: The Crisis Hangover
Worlds lived. Worlds died. The universe was never the same. But it took a little while for that universe to never be the same, and in this episode, I take a look at the period between December 1985…
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